Kenneth J. Knoespel

Professor

(PhD, University of Chicago, 1982) is a Professor in the School of History, Technology and Society and in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture. He is the author of a book on narrative forms of scientific commentary and has contributed essays and chapters to books on early modern science and technology in England, Sweden, and Russia. He has also written extensively on the manuscripts of Isaac Newton, and has a book on the institutionalization of Newtonian science, Newton and the Failure of Messianic Science (with Robert Markley), forthcoming from the University of Oklahoma Press. His current research includes projects on visualization in the European scientific revolution and The European Discovery of the Baltic World, a book on science and technology diffusion in the Baltic. He has been a visiting professor at Cornell University, a senior fellow at the Edelstein Center for the History of Science and Technology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and a visiting professor at the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg.

Contact Information: Skiles Bldg. 337
Phone: (404) 385-2056
E-mail: kenneth.knoespel@lcc.gatech.edu